Feel like a nice cool glass of ice water? Before you take a sip, you might want to take a quick tour of your home. How’s the fill valve in your toilet? Do you have a vacuum breaker on your outside spi...

National Cathedral to charge fee WASHINGTON – Struggling to cover its costs, officials at Washington National Cathedral say they’ve decided to begin charging admission fees for tourists wh...

Editor: We would like to thank Jim Mimiaga, Journal staff writer, along with the entire Cortez Journal staff for contacting us and writing an outstanding article about our story titled “Sho...

Hope for the future often exists as the sole reason for most of us to go on living. Hope inspires us, attracts us, and gives us a reason to get up every morning. Without hope for the future, why get o...

Making sure those serving in the nation’s armed forces receive their care packages from home in time for the holidays is a priority for friends and family members of military personnel serving around ...

Since Democrats in the Colorado Legislature – with Gov. John Hickenlooper’s blessing – took up gun-control measures in the 2013 session, opponents of the effort have deployed a multivariate response t...

Cortez Elk’s Lodge No. 1789 would like to thank Cortez Wal-mart Supercenter for its continued support of our military veterans. Wal-Mart donates a box of clothes each week that goes to our local veter...

Colorado’s legislators work, theoretically, part-time, so while juggling meetings and constituent work, I try to fit in other learning experiences that expand my knowledge and abilities as a legislato...